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The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-30
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,ttor Nay Il. 1855, trains will leave
&ilan Hs follows:
IbUrH. NORTH.
No. /. At ):J am No, =. at .: = am
80. ;. At 2:sU pn No. I, at i2:2l pm
',s<l t<sr. ire alsu allowed to rue on the
:ril ,WinG freight traius daily except sunday;
Aouru NORTH.
} M ~t2:40pm No. 5. at lO:4O AIN
~" Hnd2 Run avery day exceDt sunday.
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LOUISVILLE Il NASHVILLE R. X.
Evaius leave Milan AZ follow ON anu after
Nov IA. 1886.
rAssGEGRR TRAINs.
Ne. |. south. leaves at....."..........". l:i3 am
No.. D. .,...............'...... lI:9o pm
No = north, ............,..."... L:io pm
No. I. ........'........'''''' 1881 Az
Vast fruit train leaves at. ..........., pm
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,vNsshvilIs Az Mckenzie
- T;95 pm " l2:l5 pm
EAST BOUND.
~ Mckenzie S:o5 pm Ar Nashville 7:4epm
OF. CANTw Agent.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Roll call in the Hou.e.

Washington correspondent describes
a roll call i'll the hOuss of representatives:
Roll callr shout the pages, running
about the corridors Of the house wing.
Roll call. Yeas and nays, Yeas and
nays II reminds one OF the boys about
the theatres or opera singing. Opera
books. Books OF the opera, IibrettO.
hbrettO" The effect, however. is quite
different. If you are in the restaurants
when an important bill IS pending YOU viii
witness a stampede when the little fellows
run from table to table with their Roll
call" Division Of the house" OF Call
of the house" The latter is variety.
but the former signals TO members OccyR
every day. Down into the sub-hase-
ment, down into the subterranean com
mittee rooms, into the restaurant. into
the bar, along the main corridors, among
the reception rOOnzs. and even across 70
the Congressional the small boys with
the silver badge skip with the cFy: Roll
callr Roll call" And the members who
are interested in that particular measure
drop knife and fork, drop gossip with the
ladies, drop stories with the gentlemen.
drop cocktails and courting and rush to-
ward the hall Of the house. This is man
aged differently from a few years ago,
when every member had 70 be on hand
and look out for himself Now the floor
may show less than a quorum when the
clerk begins to read and then before She
second call begins for absentees the mem
bers have been gathered in from the rooms
ana corridors, and pretty full house IS
recorded. '-Pittsburg Dispatch
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
THE LUSCIOUS STRAWBERRY.

fifteen acres will probably cover the
entire area of strawberry fields around
Savannah. BY Saturday the market
will probably be supplied with home
grown berries. The Price at the first
will probably be % cents, bnt it usually
drops considerably below that. Florida
is having a great season for strawber-
ries. Jacksonville reports say that the
shipments last week exceeded anything
that has ever been known. Over TO-
600 quarts were shipped north last
week from Jacksonville. making a daily
average eOfSomtthing over 10 900 quarts.
The fruit has been bringing from 20
cents to 30 cents per quart, which is q
good average price, and nets the ship
pers for the weeks work about ST., 500.
Other points in Florida are shipping
largely. Lawtey has been shipping
from 5000 to 5000 quarts day, and
other places report equally large ship;
ments. The season, however will soon
be over, and so far as Savannah is con.
cerned the home market will have its
own supply. Other crops are fine.
Beans, cucumbers and potatoes are up,
peas are filing" and the yield prom
ises to be large. Pear trees are " set
ting" and the outlook for fruits and
vegetables generally is very promising.
Savannah ca NelUS, March 10.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Sew Tanning sub.tanc- frnm Co.l.

A new extract of coal is being intro
duced in Germany for industrial purposes,
especially for tanning leather and disin-
fectiOn generally. to which the name
''pyrOfuXin'' is given by the discOverer,
Professor Paulus Reinsen, Of Erlancen.
Bavaria. Unlike the generality Of such
compounds, this new material Is not .
derivative of coal tar, or Of any Of the
distillates of coal, but is obtained directly
from coal itself Pit or bituminOus coal
contains most Of it, and is prepared BY
being broken into nuts. The crude pyro-
fuXin is extracted by repeated boilings in
a solution of caustic soda The pyrOfuxia
enters into solution and is allowed to
stand for a time. II is then poured OF
and carbOnic acid gas is passed through
it. The resultant liquor has a specific
gravity of 1.O25 to 1850, and holds from
ten to fifteen grammes Of pyrofuxin 20 the
liter.
In its purified form the compound is a
fine, nOn-triturable substance, without
taste or smell. nOn-pOisonOus and in ap-
pearance like catechu Some Russian
coal contains Is per cent. Of pyrOfuxin
After the extraction OF this material the
coal remains cOmbuStible. II is described
as being one of the most powerful and effec-
tive antiseptics known 10 science On this
account il is expected 20 be most valuable
for tanning, as being twenty-eight times
quicker in action than bark and pruduc-
ing better result at decreased cost. Il
will be soon enough 10 give cTedence &c
this alleged leather tanning agent when
specimens of good leather are produced -
Scientific American
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
THE GREAT MYSTERY.

The following Sanscrit literature is from
one of the hymns of the Rig Veda, written
more than 5000 years before Christ:
Nor aught nor naught existed; yol bright sky
Was not, nor heaven broad woOf outstretched
above.
What covered all? What sheltered. What con
cealed?
Was it the waters fathomless abyss:
Then was not death-hencp, there was naught
immortal;
Then was no confine betwyt day and night
Inc only One breathed breathless in itself;
Other than it there nothing since has been
Darkness then was, but all at first was vailed
In gloom PrOfOund-an ocean without light
The germ that still lay covered in the husk
Burst forth, one nature, from the fervent heat
Then first came Love upon it, the new spring
OF mind. Yea, poets in their hearts discerned.
rendering, this bond between created things
And uncreated. Comes this spark from earth
Piercing and all pervading, or from heaven?
Then seeds were sown, and mighty power arose
Nature below and Power and Will above.
Who knows the secret2 Who proclaimed it heref
Whence, whence this manifold creation sprangl
The gods themselves came later into being
Who knows from whence this great creation
sprang?
He from whom all this great creation sprangf
Whether His will created or was mute
The Most High Seer, that is in highest heaven.
He knows tor perchance cen He knows not.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
To. Have or Not To Have.

A constitutional convention in Del
aware is the problem with which the
legislature of that State is struggling.
1t will probably end in not having.
John NJ. Clayton, the father of the
present constitution, said he had locked
the door on constitutions, and thrown
away the key.
The House will not have nerve and
the Senate will not have the inclina-
tion to break the lock.
By the way, the Delaware legislature
as body, visited Washington, just be-
fore Congress adjourned, and Senator
Edmunds said about them that they
were "the best looking body of men he
ever saw" and expressed surprise that
a small State like Delaware could turn
out so many fine looking men, where
upon the Delaware Democrat remark
that Delaware did not elect them for
their good looks, nor are they regarded
at their homes as any better looking
than their cQnstiuents.-Ed Edsloa Ledger.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
A Hint to Correspondents.

Correspondents sending newspapers
should be careful to mark the paragraphs
they wish the editor to see," says an
English contemporary journal, and we re-
produce it on this side of the ocean with
an emphasis prOpOrtiOned to the distance.
If our correspondents could know how
much valuable time was uselessly spent
in looking over papers in the often futile
endeavOr to find out why they were sent
they would save us much trouble. Make
a dash with blue, red, or even black lead
pencil, or with ink if it be preferred. az
the upper left hand corner Of the article
to which they would call our attention,
and the eye will catch it at once, and the
object of sending the paper be accom-
plished
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
WHOLE NO. 1858.
RIcHMoNo's FAMOUS FIRE.
How a Great Piece of News Was Treaties
in the Old Days.

in the Old Days.
The editor Of The Richmond Standard
was present, and wrote the following ae-
count for his paper the next day:
Last night the play house in this city
was crowded with an unusual audience.
There could not have been less than G0O
persons in the house Just before the
conclusion of the play the scenery caught
fire. The editor of this paper was in the
house when the ever to be remembered de-
plorable accident occurred He is in
formed that the scenery took hre in the
back part Of the house by the raising Of
chandelier; that the boy who was ordered
by some of the players to raise il stated
that If he did so the scenery would take
fire, when he was commanded in a per
emptory manner TO hoist H. The boy
obeyed and the fire instantly communi-
Gated to the scenery. He gave the alarm
in the rear Of the stage and requested
some OF the attendants to cut the cords by
which the cOmbuStible materials were sus-
pended. The person whose duty il was 20
perform this became panic stricken and
sought his own safety
The flames spread almost with the
rapidity Of lightning, and the fire falling
from the ceiling upon the performers was
NAAN al - Ali1AlCG Aut dlQltAlEE LdQ d LQE4E
danger. Even then many supposed IL part
of the play. and were u little time re-
strained from flight by a cry from the
stage that there was no danger. The per
formers and their attendants in vain en-
deavored to tear down the scenery The
fire flashed in every part Of the house with
a rapidity horrible and astonishing. and,
alas! gushing tears and unspeakable an
guish deprived me Of utterance.
There was but one door for the great
est part Of the audience to pass Men,
women and children were pressing upon
each other, while the flames were seizing
upon those behind. Those nearest the
windows, which were very high. were
afraid 10 leap down, while those behind
them were seen catching on FIRE and
writhing in the greatest agony of pain and
distress. Imagine what cannot
be described All Of those in the pit -
capped and had cleared themselves from
the house before those in the boxes could
get down, and the door was for some time
empty. Those from above were pushing
each other down the steps, when the hin
dermost might have got out BY leaping
into the pit. There would not have been
the least difficulty in descending from the
first boxes into the pit. ."-RichmOnd Cor.
New York sun.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

While ON his way home at the usual
early morning hour a reporter fell in with
Capt. John Hiends, hOmeward bound also
1t was blowing rather fresh and raining.
and the reporter remarked; Rather
rough, cap'n." Not so rough as il WAS
where l was forty years ago to-day" Was
the reply. ''Where was thats'' Il Was
landing provisions at Vera Cruz for the
American army. The soldiers were suf-
fering for food and we took lot Of pro
visions to the mole in life boat and threw
them ashore and the soldiers, with life
lines around them, waded out in the
The United States brig Sumner, eO1E-
msnded by Raphael Semmes, was wrecked
in the same storm near Vera Craz-
Portland Oregonian.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Brief Sentence from Beeoher.

We sleep, but the loom of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav-
ing when the sun went down, is weav-
ing when it comes up tomorrow.
He who is false 10 present duty breaks
a thread in the loom, and will find the
flaw when he may have forgotten its
cause.
Some men are like pyramids which
are very broad where they touch the
ground, but grow narrower as they
reach the sky.
In this world it is not what we take
up, but what we give up, that makes
us rich.
A helping word to one in trouble is
often like switch on railroad track
but one inch between wreck and smooth
rolling prosperity.
A Christianity which will not help
those who ara struggling from the bot
tom of society needs another Christ to
die for it.
Success is full of promise till men get
it; and then it is last years nest from
which the bird has flown.
We go to the grave of friend saying.
"A man is dead ;" but angels throng
about him saying. " A man is born"
We ought to love life; we ought to
desire to live here so long as God or
dains it; but let us not SO encase our
selves in time that we cannot break the
crust and begin TO throw out shoots for
the other life.
In the morning we carry the world
like Atlas; at noon we stop and bend
beneath it and at night it crushes us fiat
to the ground.
Any feeling that takes a man away
from his home is traitor to the house
hold.
1t is one of the worst effects of pros
perity to make man a vortex instead
of fountain, so that, instead of throw
ing out, he learns only to draw in
1t is not we'll for "a man to pray cream
and live skim milk
Liberty is the souls right to breathe,
and when it cannot take long breath
laws are girdled too tight. Without
liberty man is a syncope.
The truest selfrespect is not to think
of self.
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of
truth set up and stuffed.
Men have different spheres. 1t is for
some to evolve great moral truth, as the
heavens evolve stars, Oguide the sailor
on the sea and the traveller on the desert
and it is for some, like the sailor and
the traveller, simply to be guided.
The stream of life forks, and religion
is apt tOrun in one channel and business
in another.
There is always somebody to believe
in any one who is uppermost.
Death is the dropping of the flower
that the fruit may swell.
Aman living At "A hotel is like a grape
vine in Il ilowcr-pot, movable, carried
around from place to place, docked a
the root ami short at the top Nowert
can man get real root room, an6 spread
out his branches till they touch tht
morning and evening, but in his house
As flowers never put on their bes
| clothes for Sunday, but wear their spot
less raiment and eXhale their Odo
+ every day, SO let your Christian life fire,
5 from stain, ever give forth the fragranc,
Of the love ofGod.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
PEACHES GOING TO BALTIMORE.

CENTERvILLE, Md, March 9I.-
Peach growers in Queen Anne's county
regard with considerable interest the
developments in the peach basket ques-
ton. The work of the convention
which has been called to meet at Dover,
Del, on the 18th of May to determine
the action of producers upon this ques-
ton is awaited with some curiosity.
Whatever the outcome, it is probable
that the action of the New York deal
ers and the free discussion of the sub
iect by the Peninsular press will turn a
large amount of fruit to Baltimore that
probable would have gone elsewhere,
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Trotting Circuit.

The Maryland and Delaware Trot-
ting Circuit was formed at EastOn. The
following associations entered: PimlicO,
Easton, Dover, Elkton and Beliar. The
Kent county association applied for ad-
mission but as their dates conflicted
with those of Easton, the latter was ad-
mitted. Each member will give eight
trotting and two pacing races during
their fair, of the following classes and
minimum purses: 210 class, $500; 2.54
class, $400; 2 20, 234 5.37 and 2. 40 class
es each $500; $50 and 3-minute classes
each $2l0, and the following pacing
race; 2.S4 class $500 free for ali, S4O0
Any member of the Circuit can have the
privilege of adding special races.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Good Bye, Sweet Day.

Goodbye, sweet day, goodbye
l have 50 loved thee, but cannot hold thee
Departing like dream, the shadows fold thee !;
Slowly thy perfect beauty fades away:
Good bye, sweet day
Goodbye. sweet day goodbye!
d. ar we thy golden hours of tranquil Splen-
dor,
Sadly ,hOu yielde,t t, the evening teuder.
Who " ert 50 fair from thy first morning ray
Goodbye, sweet day
Good bye, sweet day, gOOd-byei
Thy glow and charm, thy smiles and tones and
ganCes
Vanish at last and solemn night advances
All cOuldsl thou yet little longer stay
Goodbye, sweet day
Goodbye, sweet day. gOod-byel
All thy rich gifts my grateful heart remembers
The while | watch thy sunsets smOuldering
emberS
Die in the west beneath the twilight gray.
Goodbye sweet day! Celia Ibdrter.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
The Street PeddIer.. New device.

The street peddler, he who makes life q
burden with his ehamOis skins, his cheap
stationery, his wOOlly dogs and his rubber
combs ON every shopping thoroughfare in
the city, has new device, out Of which
he is coming Just now small fortune.
He calls it a muff warmer, and il consists
of tiny metal box, an inch or 50 in
diameter and three or four inches long.
which contains fuse OF some slow burn
ing material warranted to dispense a com
Portable glow of warmth during a shop
plug expedition OF = couple OF hours Or
mere In length. IL looks uneommonly
like new patent Internal machine 20 the
uninitiated, bat takes among the bargain
hunters on a chilly day.-KansSs City
Journal
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

The President has named the Inter-
State Commerce Commissioners. and
he seems to have done his work well.
The Republicans have minority of the
Board in numbers, but they are decid-
edly the ablest members. Judge Cooley
is one of the very ablest Jurists in the
country and his presence on the Board
is alone a guaranty that the work will
be c0nseientiOusly done Their task is
probably the most important that has
ever been committed to a civil commits
sion, and their work will be watched
with intense interest.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
slang in the Restaurant.

Men who write books abOns slang might
find material in some restaurants In
Kansas City there is an abundance Of il.
Only in one place In st. Louis-on Morgan
street-can yOn hear downright slang In
the giving Of the orders, and curious it is
II YOU tell the waiter you want an oyster
stew, he shouts out to the kitchen: Jesse
Jamesr' A beefsteak becomes slaughter
in PAM" plain, black coffee is coffee in
the dark" potatoes unpeeled are Murphy
with his coat ons' two eggs fried On 0ns
side are transformed into sisanny side ups'
buckwheat cakes are spoken OF in gambler
fashion as stack Of reds with copper on
top" and batter cakes IS stack of
whites. Waiter Ia Globe Democrat.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

H. f. McNeal agent of the Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New York,
committed suicide at hotel in Ken
nedyville Md, on Wednesday morning.
He shot himself with pistol above the
right ear His mother and one sister
live In Baltimore while another sister
is in California.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
wA,.. ,a.Il..hI. rr.n o..

A writer upon the prodDcts of Ar<@n-
sas saws 1.-The most remarkable and tn
teresting mineral of all the region Ia ths
white malleable iron ore, regarding the
existence and p.Siieahility Of which q
great deal of skepticisn is said TO exist
it is found in the corner OF Howard
county, adjoining sizs f-5sSssr os Monf-
ao.nery, Polk and Pike. ."-ExehnnsS
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

The capital punishment law in Maine
has been repealed, and imprisonment
for life is substituted for death in all
cases of murder in the first degree.
Such convicts, however, are kept in
close confinement, away from all assoGi!
ations," and no pardoning power is left
to the Governor And Council unless the
convict is proved innocent.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Don't Exnarimant.

You cannot afford to waste time In experiment.
ing when your lungs are in danger. Do not per.
NIT any dealer TO impose upon you with some
cheap imitation of DR. Kings New Discovery for
Consumption, Coughs aud Colds, but be sure you
get the genuine Because he can make more
profit he may tell you he has something Just the
same Don't be deceived, but insist upon getting
DR.. Kings New Discovery. which is guaranteed To
give relief In all Throat, Lung and Chest afec.
tons. Trial bottles free at Jas. p. Hoffecker's
Drug Store, Smyrna, Del.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

After the most exhaustive practical
tests in hospitals and elsewhere, the
gold medal and certificate of of highest
merit were awarded to St. Jacobs Oil,
as the best paid curing remedy, at the
Calcutta international Exhibition. ~
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Electricity In Weaving.

A manufacturer of Roubaix, NJ. Henry
Buisini, has just discovered a very curl
Gus application Of electricity to looms.
He adopts an indicator which strikes
when thread in the warp breaks, and
thus saves the warpeF from taking out
any of his work to find the flaw, and he
need not pay such close attention to the
quickly moving threads, which is so in
furious to the sight. The invention can
be applied to power looms.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Saved His Life,

Mr.. ID. |. WilcoxsOn, of Horse Cave, Ky says he
was, for many years badly afflicted with Phthisic,
also Diabetes: the pains were almost uHendura-
Bile and would sometimes almost threw him into
conVulsi0ns. He tried Electric RittaFs ana got
reliei from first bottle and after taking six bottles
was entirely cured, and had gained in flesh egh-
teen poundg Says he positively believes he
would have died, had it not been for the relief a-
toIded by Electric Bitters Sold at fifty cents a
bottle BY Jas. = Hotfeeker, SMYRNA, Del
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

"Think naught a triAe, though it
small appear" just remember for in
stance how you would be dancing
around with toothache, If you han'nt
bought bottle of Salvation Oil-Yes !
think of that.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

Prof. John B. Ritchie, well-known in
Smyrna, was given a surprise at his
RESIDENCE, in Wilmington, on Wednes-
day evening, March 10th, on the Occa-
sion of his fittieth anniversary. He
was the recipient of many presents.
among them being n silver headed cane,
gold spectacles, and pair of slippers.
Refreshments were served during the
evening. The affair was a complete
surprise to the Professor, and for that
reason was the more thoroughly en-
loved.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Fruit Items.
EARLY VEGETABLES KILLED BY Frost

CHARLESTON, S. c., March 20.-There
was heavy frost in this locality and as
far down South aS Savannah Saturday
morning. The plain meaning of this is
a loss of from $40O, 900 to $500, 900 to the
farmers in this section, who are engaged
in the cultivation of strawberries and
vegetables, which are annually shipped
to New York. Phila1elphi;, Baltimore
Strawberries, peas, potatoes and beans
were killed in many instances outright,
and in others are Sn rrtarded in growth
as to render their shipment North un-
profitable. 1t is Il severe blow to this
section.
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30
Drunkenness. or Linuor Habit.
CAN BE CURED BY ADMINISTERING n
HAINES' GOLDEN SPECIFIC.

CAN BE CURED by ADMINISTERING Mr..
HAINEs' GOLDEN SPECIFIC.
1t can be given in cup of coffee or tea
without the knowledge of the person taking
it, etfecting II speedy and permanent cure,
whether the patient is moderate drinker
or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands of
drunkards haye been made temperate men
who have taken the Golden Specific in their
coffee without their knowledge, and to-day
believe they quit drinking of their own free
will. No harmful effect results from its
administration. Cures guaranteed. Send
for circular and full particulars. Address
in confidence GOLDEN SPECIFIC Co, 1856
Race St, Cincinnati, Chic. feb9-Iy
Smyrna times., 1887-03-30

When Dakota minister gives out a
notice ofsome ohuEch meeting he adds
to the traditional formula. "God will
ing" the words "and blizzard not pre- :
venting"